...I am from Slovakia and my grandma sang church songs in Hungarian as well ALL THE TIME WHEN COOKING and it's amazing how good singing voices they have, our grandmas
50+ years ago my granny in a Siberian village cooked the same dish. Its Russian name is "ponchik". Only the songs were different, of course. Sweet memories... Many thanks!
Grandma Gina, your Zeppole is a lot like our "Loucoumades" here in Greece. Instead of sugar and cinnamon, which is good as well, we drizzle honey on the loucoumades, chopped walnuts and cinnamon. Very, very delicious. Try making Zeppole with honey, if you want. I'm sure you will like them. Bravo on all your recipes!!! Happy Holidays🎄❄️☃️ Peace and Love ☮️❤️ from sunny 🌅 Greece 🏖️🇬🇷
@@nonenoneonenonenone I have, when I was a kid. I loved the ‘mountain’ covered in honey and nonpareils. So good! I haven’t seen them in such a long time, though.
My grandma and mom made these bigger and longer and placed them in a bowl then drizzled honey on them and sprinkled powdered sugar on top. MMM-MMMM! They were done for a New Years Eve tradition.
The song and your memories of your grandmother 😢 happy tears. Sharing that with us warmed my heart. I'm going to make these for my grandchildren. Make memories. 🙏❤🤍💙
IT'S GINA!!! YIPPEE Gina. I was not having a good day. Sometimes on these days...I cook. I don't even want to cook. BUT, now I hear your voice cooking in the kitchen...thank you sweet Gina and your family...now I feeling like I can "cure" these blues with some cooking. Love to you all....and...NOW..I will see what you (and me) are cooking today. (I thank you first even before I see the recipe...but I'm listening while I talk) (yes...I know I text too long hee hee)
@@didisinclair3605 Thank you. That was very kind of you. You know....there are good days and there are bad days. I try to make every day count. Some days just don't work. HaHa. Thank you...take care.
Cara Gina, I remember eating Zeppole in Brooklyn, NY as a little girl. Great memories during the holiday season. Your wonderful recipes have inspired my cooking. Have a safe and blessed Christmas with your family. Your grand children are fortunate to have you in their lives. Gracie mille and please continue singing, I love it. Ciao!
Just wish I'd have had a Grandma like Gina💝 What a Blessing🙏✝️. Brings Me Great Joy😊 to watch Her cook and Sing such Beauteous, Heartfelt songs🎵🎶 God be with and keep You with Your Beloved Family and Us a long time, till We see You in Heaven💙🙂
So happy to see Grandma Gina! This looks wonderful. We will try this soon. My daughter has your apron, and I got her the cookbook as well. It is a blessing to make such good food together. God bless you and your family.
I remember eating these every year at the San Gennaro feast as a kid. They'd sell them by the dozen, in brown paper bags full of powdered sugar and shake the bag up before handing them over. Still warm, perfect treat on a chilly afternoon :D Never had granulated sugar and cinnamon, might try that out.
If you do this, put the sugar and cinnamon in the food processor for a while to make the sugar finer. You can shake the zipoles in a bag like confectioners sugar. If it’s too coarse, it won’t stick the same way…
I thoroughly enjoy listening to Gina and watching her cook. Reminds me of my grandfather, Domenic Romano, who came to this country as a young, 15 year old boy in 1913. He would aIways sing when he was cooking. He would make zeppole around the Christmas holidays. He was born in Locri, Italy in Reggio Calabria.
Sei tu "una cosa speciale", cara Nonna Gina. Nelle tue mani c'è la dignità, l'amore, la gentilezza e l'intelligenza della nostra Terra, che hai portato con te tanti anni fa e che oggi regali a tutto il Mondo attraverso il tuo canale RUclips. Grazie, a nome di tutti. Buon Natale da Napoli. Merry Christmas from Naples. 🎅
Nonna Gina! I love to hear you sing! 🙏 So beautiful! So happy you are doing well. I love zeppoles! Every Christmas Eve us kids would eat them as fast as my nonna made them. Buon Natale, Buon Anno, Nonna Gina! 🎄
I have watched your video's and I love them. You take me back to my mamma and auntie Pearls kitchen. I'm 78, so you know that goes back a while. Auntie Pearl married a kind man with Italian heritage. We came to love the Italian dishes. Thank you Nonna for what you do.
Gramaye good to see you. even if I don’t know you in person you have no idea how much love I have for you. You always fill my Grandmother’s space . May God bless you with health and many many more years Happy holidays.
I like how Gina, and myself, I do it too, every last little bit...waste not, want not was what they used to say and absolutely true. I like how she takes time to do that. It is an unspoken message to those we teach, from one generation to another. :) Thank you it is a very important message.
It is because you made it and it has family history behind it. You make it from your heart with love. I do miss my grandmother so very much. She was a lot like you. God Bless and MERRY CHRISTMAS Grandma Gina.
We make almost the same recipe in the Middle Eastern region called (luqmat elqadi), but we use simple syrup as sweetener instead of sugar. Thank you so much grandma Gina you are the best cook and baker as always 😊😊
I am speechless, she made me smile so big! Her recipes are wonderful and her singing brings tears of joy to my eyes. My Nana is Italian and passed away 16 years ago and she used to cook some wonderful food for us. It's been 16 years since I have heard her singing in the kitchen. It made my whole year hearing you sing Grandma Gina, thank you and God bless you and your family. I cannot wait to try this recipe for zeppole's.
Gina, my grandmother made these, however they were called sfingi. They use ricotta and baking powder instead of yeast (along with flour and sugar). She made them every New Year's Eve! I make them and my girlfriend's children love them. I have to make a double batch for them. WE just dust them with powdered sugar, but I am going to try sugar/cinnamon next time. By the way, I love you and love to watch you! Keep going!
My husband is from Morocco and they call these Sfinge, from the word "sponge". How interesting language is! Even more, how amazing the food is around the Mediterranean Sea ♥️
Happy holidays to Nonna Gina and the entire family! You all have brought us much joy since we discovered your site in March 2020 as we all started to cook more at home. Much health and happiness to you all!
Dear Nonna Gina, My mother and my sisters LOVE watching your RUclips cooking! Today we made your Zeppole recipe. They are delicious!! Your love of cooking for your family is such a joy to watch. Sydney Australia
Over here, in Northern Ireland, we are currently being hit by Storm Barra. Most people are indoors, sheltering from the high winds and driving rain. Most SENSIBLE people are indoors, watching Nonna Gina making Zeppole! Don't they look DELICIOUS??!! Thank you for your recipe and your singing! ❤❤❤❤😋😋😋😋👍👍👍👍🎊🎊🎊
I love Gina and her cooking ! I am a big fan and I've watched and made many of her recipes. Some of my favorites are sausage and peppers, Tiramisu I have made for my daughter and grandchildren for Thanks Giving , and they all Love it! Thank You and your Family for sharing your wonderful warm family spirited time with all of us!!! Blessings!
I just love you, Grandma Gina oh you are such a ray of sunshine in my eyes …… getting your marvellous recipes …. that is the joy of my day… thank you for just being you …. Our little angel. We all love you so much….. and we are so thankful to God for you, son in laws better health …🙏🏻❤️🥰🌺
So happy to see you again mama Gina😍 We are all your grandchildren all over the country. Blessings to you and your family, Happy Holidays and may God bless you always.
My Italian grandma made these every Christmas time. She made them by the truck load! Kept them in the cellar and reheated them as needed and then rolled them in sugar. All my Italian family is gone but watching this lady makes me feel right at home . Even the singing!❤❤
We made this with your pizza dough recipe. We mixed the cinnamon with brown sugar. We added the sugar mix to a brown bag and when we removed the fried dough we just dropped it in the bag and shook it. Such a wonderful snack.
OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU GRANDMA GINA!!!!!!!!!!! When I saw a notification from "Italian Grandma" I was like GRANDMA GINA........WOOOOHOOO!!!!!!💜🥰💜🥰💜 I bet you've led a VERY COLORFUL life and the stories........ooooooh man I'd LOVE to hear some of your stories FOR REAL!!!!!! I can't WAIT till I can cook these WONDERFUL LITTLE MORSELS!!!!!💜😍💜😍💜 THANK YOU GRANDMA GINA for sharing!!!!!!!🤗🥰🤗🥰🤗
Wow these look sooo delicious! Thank you for welcoming us into your home Grandma Gina! Nice to see you happy and singing like your grandma! Have a wonderful holiday season! 💞
You remind me so much of my grandmother on my father's side. She was born in Bari Italy and she was an amazing cook, everything was fresh from the garden and she made her own pasta every week. This recipe brings me back to when I a little kid we would eat these on Christmas Eve after all the fish dishes. May God bless you and your family, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year 🙏⛄🎄
Ciao nonnina Gina! Thank you for showing us how to make zeppole. I still remember my Santola Carla. She's the one who used to make them, just before Christmas. Guests "arrived" quite unexpectedly around the Christmas holidays in those days. (I also still remember their phone number. It was a "party line".) You had to be careful what you said on the telephone... Not everyone could afford a "private line". Especially some of us recent "emigranti". I recall mountains of snow being cleared by the City plows, into the middle of the road, which were so high you could not see over them to the other side of the road. We kids would slide down, in our slippery snow suits. (Who needed sleds, eh?) It's a miracle anyone survived our "wild, unsafe" childhoods. Not a seat belt in sight. Little kids trudged several blocks to the "corner store" to buy our dads their smokes... I swear. The woman who owned the convenience store never even blinked. I'd "order" 6 bananas and a pack of Export A. She sometimes gave me the penny or two change back in 3 for a penny candy, which is the reason for that story line. :-) Oh, the discomfort of being bundled into a "snow suit" though. We could barely move, but since it was a solid 5 minute tromp, on hard packed crunchy snow that hurt if you slipped and fell, it was both padding and arctic weather protection. 50 degree below zero farenheit temperatures some years. (No idea what the "wind chill" factor was. Didn't matter. It was a "dry cold". Only felt like 30 below... Tiny icicles would form on our eyelashes. (The only thing poking through 2 wool scarves.) So, 3 and then later 4 kids wrapped like mummies, or we'd freeze within minutes, led by mamma in her spike heels and pappa in his shiny polished pointy shoes. (How? Lol... "Hard packed snow." Gingerly.) Fyi: Santa used to arrive on Christmas Eve, driving a snow mobile. True story. All the Italian families in our small northern Canadian town always had several young children in tow, including our family. What joy! What excitement!! CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!! We'd all be offered a cup of hot chocolate milk to warm us up, once we unwrapped. To de-ice. The adults immediately broke out the homemade red zinfandel grape wine and/or a shot of grappa. (Or 2 or 3.) Naturally, what followed was a robust round of "stornelli". All the men seemed to have great voices, to my ear, and their harmonies were quite spectacular if memory serves. (No instruments. "A Capella".) While the women cranked out the zeppole in the kitchen, adding their soprano and high tenor voices to all the pre and post war Italian songs. Which I still remember, just like you do Gina. Parola per parola... Epic! I was very very young but our olfactory sense is ancient. I still remember the aroma of those zeppole as well as mamma's pizzelle made with anise seeds and the requisite "liquore". 40 years or so later, my little boy and I would buy a small bucket of "doughnut holes" rolled in cinammon sugar at the PNE in Vancouver. (Reptillian brain is strong in this old Italian eh? Oh my, yes!) Anyway... trips down memory lane are practically unavoidable whenever I watch your cooking videos and you begin singing. Buon Natale and a better New Year cara nonnina Gina e Famiglia. Dio ti benedica. Sei un tesoro.
Beautiful story.. thank you for sharing.. We must never forget our Italian up bringing and our families who have gone on before us. We try to keep these Italian traditions alive, but it’s never quite the same, is it? Gina helps us to invoke these wonderful traditions and memories of our Italian parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles.. Gina is absolutely precious, she reminds me of my late mother Giuseppina 🙏🏻❤️ She is truly a treasure …Tesoro!! Buon Natale Paisan 🎄🇮🇹🙌🏻
You are the MOST precious person on this earth! My father always made me these wonderful treats. God bless you everyday. May you have a wonderful Christmas. xo
Hello Grandma ! Here from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 ! I tried your egg plant Parmesan and it was delicious ! Now for Christmas 🎄 I will make your Zeppolis ! I love 💕 your channel and I enjoy watching you cook ! Have a great Christmas and New Years this 2022 with your family ! Much love 💗 and respect 🤗 for you ! Happy Holidays ! December 7th Tuesday 2021 ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍♥️♥️♥️🥰🥰🥰😊😊😊⭐️⭐️⭐️🎄🎄🎄
Hi Nonna! I tried making these awhile back, but they didn't turn out the way they should, BUT now, watching you make them, I learned what I did wrong, ( I put too much flour! ), so thank you Nonna Gina! I am going to follow your instructions, so I know they will turnout perfect this time! 💕 😊 P. S. -when you sing, it gets right to my heart!
I see the instructions say 1 cup of milk but in the video she used two cups. Made it myself and it was a bit off so i cane back to check again, totally worth the remake!
I love watching you cook! It makes me so happy and brings back memories of my Sicilian grandma ! She didn’t sing but she loved to dance with my grandpa! God bless you Nonna Gina!Padre Pio is my favorite saint,too! ❤️🙏
My family recipe is very similar, although we sometimes make variations by using a little orange juice, anisette, etc. Also, instead of using spoons, we use a piping bag with a big plain tip. It’s a lot easier. Another trick is that you can put raspberry jam or custard in the zeppole. They’re good no matter what you decide to do.
So good to see You, Gina! 💓🙏💓 Love Your singing!🎶 Merry Christmas to You and Your Family!! Those "doughnut holes"😊 look so good, Yum! Fun to watch~makes me want 1, 2, or 3...🤔😂💓 Have a lovely day, Gina!!!💓 😋😍💞🤗💕🎄🎇
Thank you for sharing your time and your recipes. Everything you make always looks delicious. I always end up with a smile on my face, especially when you sing! I purchased 2 of your cookbooks, one to keep and one to share with a brother who loves to cook. I can't wait to use them. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I absolutely love you Gina. Your family is so blessed to have you and making these videos to last forever. Keep making these videos we all love them and you.
Who loves watching Gina and feels like she’s our Nonna too? I would love to see a show with Gina talking about her learning to cook, how she decided to do this channel, what’s her process, and who helps her film and edit? I guess what I’m saying is I want more Gina 💚❤️
I LOVE it when Grandma Gina sings. During the early part of COVID I was so glad to hear her sing. It brought me to happy that Grandma Gina was continuing to sing. Such a wonderful Grandma 👵 ❤. I love the early part, "Today, I gotta make" and then dear Grandma Gina makes it. With all her heart and soul. Singing is healing...please give Grandma Gina a BIG HUG for me. Thank you.
Hi Gina, I remember my Grandmother making this, now I have the recipe I’m going to make it tomorrow. I just love your videos it warms my heart to hear the stories and you singing❤️❤️ The videos are such good quality, I also have your book on my coffee table I have made almost all of your recipes in the book. I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas🎄🎄God Bless
Love those Gina, I'll make some just like yours at Christmas for visitors. Thank you for the songs and I'm sure your grandmother was singing along with you in spirit. Hope you and your family have a fantastic festive season and see you in the New Year for another video. x
Oh yay, I've been wanting to make these and now I will. Thank you Gina! Merry Christmas to you and your family...and all of your fans on here, they are all family too!
I love these with anchovies twisted in the dough for an Italian Christmas Eve Fish Feast. But my husband prefers the sugar, so we make both. Merry Christmas Italian Grandma and to all your family..
I just love watching your videos and hearing you sing. So much happiness and love in your heart. My 5 year old has been watching with me since he was 3 and calls you his youtube grandma :)
Hello Ms Gina I’m so happy to see you! I love these donuts with cinnamon sugar & your look so fluffy and delicious 😋 Thanks for sharing your recipe & singing too 💕 Wishing you & yours a Merry Christmas 🎄 . God bless you all Brenda & Charlie Take care
I love when Nonna sings. Puts a special ingredient in her food: Love 🥘 🥰
Me too! My ears don't understand but my heart and soul sure do because they feel all warm, fuzzy and happy!
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...I am from Slovakia and my grandma sang church songs in Hungarian as well ALL THE TIME WHEN COOKING and it's amazing how good singing voices they have, our grandmas
Yes 🥰🥰
Hate it.
Grandma Gina is the grandmother we should all be so fortunate to have ... Merry Christmas, Gina ❤️🎄❤️
I love her.
Amen... They are a treasure
She is so sweet! Love her!💗
Love you😘Merry Christmas
I couldn't agree with you more, I love her. ❤
Toughest part of this recipe is learning the song so you can get the mixing timing right! 😁 Thank you Gina you maka my daya!😍
speaking of : What is the song?? at the beginning and the end?? Grazie
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On snow days the neighbor kids would come over for these when my children were young. Good times. Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas !
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I remember delicious zeps at Italian festivals in NY
Every time Grandma Gina bursts into song, I tear up. I don't know why. You make me so happy, Grandma Gina! God bless you ♥️
50+ years ago my granny in a Siberian village cooked the same dish. Its Russian name is "ponchik". Only the songs were different, of course. Sweet memories... Many thanks!
Oh Gina! You are wonderful! Keep singing! You bring us Joy and memories of family!
Grandma Gina, your Zeppole is a lot like our "Loucoumades" here in Greece. Instead of sugar and cinnamon, which is good as well, we drizzle honey on the loucoumades, chopped walnuts and cinnamon. Very, very delicious. Try making Zeppole with honey, if you want. I'm sure you will like them. Bravo on all your recipes!!! Happy Holidays🎄❄️☃️ Peace and Love ☮️❤️ from sunny 🌅 Greece 🏖️🇬🇷
Taiglach are maybe the same, but there's also ginger in the spices. And they are arranged in a tower then drizzled. Never had them.
@@nonenoneonenonenone I have, when I was a kid. I loved the ‘mountain’ covered in honey and nonpareils. So good!
I haven’t seen them in such a long time, though.
My grandma and mom made these bigger and longer and placed them in a bowl then drizzled honey on them and sprinkled powdered sugar on top. MMM-MMMM! They were done for a New Years Eve tradition.
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Greek food!! 👍👍👍
The song and your memories of your grandmother 😢 happy tears. Sharing that with us warmed my heart. I'm going to make these for my grandchildren. Make memories. 🙏❤🤍💙
IT'S GINA!!! YIPPEE Gina. I was not having a good day. Sometimes on these days...I cook. I don't even want to cook. BUT, now I hear your voice cooking in the kitchen...thank you sweet Gina and your family...now I feeling like I can "cure" these blues with some cooking. Love to you all....and...NOW..I will see what you (and me) are cooking today. (I thank you first even before I see the recipe...but I'm listening while I talk) (yes...I know I text too long hee hee)
I hope tomorrow is a much better day for you!!!
@@didisinclair3605 Thank you. That was very kind of you. You know....there are good days and there are bad days. I try to make every day count. Some days just don't work. HaHa. Thank you...take care.
Grandma Gina puts 2 special ingredients - sings beautifully & adds her love ❤️ ❤️
Happy healthy holidays to Gina & her family
Love see nona Gina bake and cook Good Bless you and your family
Padre Pio is always watching over you Gina in your Kitchen as you cook 🙏🏻
God Bless you Gina… Merry Christmas 🎄
We love you 😘
Cara Gina, I remember eating Zeppole in Brooklyn, NY as a little girl. Great memories during the holiday season. Your wonderful recipes have inspired my cooking. Have a safe and blessed Christmas with your family. Your grand children are fortunate to have you in their lives. Gracie mille and please continue singing, I love it. Ciao!
Just wish I'd have had a Grandma like Gina💝
What a Blessing🙏✝️.
Brings Me Great Joy😊 to watch Her cook and Sing such Beauteous, Heartfelt songs🎵🎶
God be with and keep You with Your Beloved Family and Us a long time, till We see You in Heaven💙🙂
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So happy to see Grandma Gina! This looks wonderful. We will try this soon. My daughter has your apron, and I got her the cookbook as well. It is a blessing to make such good food together. God bless you and your family.
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I remember eating these every year at the San Gennaro feast as a kid. They'd sell them by the dozen, in brown paper bags full of powdered sugar and shake the bag up before handing them over. Still warm, perfect treat on a chilly afternoon :D Never had granulated sugar and cinnamon, might try that out.
Me too!
Same here !
At the feast you’d see almost everyone carrying around that greasy bag filled with them! ☺️
If you do this, put the sugar and cinnamon in the food processor for a while to make the sugar finer. You can shake the zipoles in a bag like confectioners sugar. If it’s too coarse, it won’t stick the same way…
@@kathkwilts THANK YOU! It never occurred to me to do this, and I detest the texture of table sugar on donuts, I'll def do this!
Ciao Nonna cara.
ALWAYS happy when I can hear you singing ..
Much love to you and to your family💖
I thoroughly enjoy listening to Gina and watching her cook. Reminds me of my grandfather, Domenic Romano, who came to this country as a young, 15 year old boy in 1913. He would aIways sing when he was cooking. He would make zeppole around the Christmas holidays. He was born in Locri, Italy in Reggio Calabria.
Beautiful lady inside out. God gives her strength all the time. Thank you for this recipe 🙏❤
Dear sweet friend! I love to hear you sing. Merry Christmas Gina!
I really enjoy this, reminds me of my mother in law, miss her. Bless this beautiful lady.
Looking good a usual , love earring you sing. Thank you and GOD BLESS
Sei tu "una cosa speciale", cara Nonna Gina.
Nelle tue mani c'è la dignità, l'amore, la gentilezza e l'intelligenza della nostra Terra, che hai portato con te tanti anni fa e che oggi regali a tutto il Mondo attraverso il tuo canale RUclips.
Grazie, a nome di tutti.
Buon Natale da Napoli. Merry Christmas from Naples. 🎅
Отлично! Как приятно смотреть и слушать Джину! Дай Вам Бог здоровья!
Grandma Gina, I really enjoy watching you cook
Nonna Gina! I love to hear you sing! 🙏 So beautiful! So happy you are doing well. I love zeppoles! Every Christmas Eve us kids would eat them as fast as my nonna made them. Buon Natale, Buon Anno, Nonna Gina! 🎄
I have watched your video's and I love them. You take me back to my mamma and auntie Pearls kitchen. I'm 78, so you know that goes back a while. Auntie Pearl married a kind man with Italian heritage. We came to love the Italian dishes. Thank you Nonna for what you do.
Gramaye good to see you. even if I don’t know you in person you have no idea how much love I have for you. You always fill my Grandmother’s space . May God bless you with health and many many more years
Happy holidays.
Sembravano fantastici. Molto gustosi scaldano il mio cuore italiano grazie per averli fatti. 🇮🇹🇮🇹
I like how Gina, and myself, I do it too, every last little bit...waste not, want not was what they used to say and absolutely true. I like how she takes time to do that. It is an unspoken message to those we teach, from one generation to another. :) Thank you it is a very important message.
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God bless you. Every time I watch you I think of my dear Nonna. She would sing all of the time when she cooked
It is because you made it and it has family history behind it. You make it from your heart with love. I do miss my grandmother so very much. She was a lot like you. God Bless and MERRY CHRISTMAS Grandma Gina.
Good morning, precious lady!
I am so happy to see you🥰
Lots of love to you, dear heart.
Stay well!
I love these videos. Listening to Gina brings back so many Christmas memories. Merry Christmas to you and your family, Gina!🥰🎄🤍🌈
God bless you Nona Gina! You bring back to a world that is gone!
Good to see you Grandma Gina. I remember having these when my Mother-in -law was alive. Very good. Merry Christmas to you and your family. 🤗
We make almost the same recipe in the Middle Eastern region called (luqmat elqadi), but we use simple syrup as sweetener instead of sugar. Thank you so much grandma Gina you are the best cook and baker as always 😊😊
I am speechless, she made me smile so big! Her recipes are wonderful and her singing brings tears of joy to my eyes. My Nana is Italian and passed away 16 years ago and she used to cook some wonderful food for us. It's been 16 years since I have heard her singing in the kitchen. It made my whole year hearing you sing Grandma Gina, thank you and God bless you and your family. I cannot wait to try this recipe for zeppole's.
Nonna Gina love your singing! You bring back memories of my dear parents! Christmas was wonderful in whole Sicilian family . Thank You Nonna Gina
Gina, my grandmother made these, however they were called sfingi. They use ricotta and baking powder instead of yeast (along with flour and sugar). She made them every New Year's Eve! I make them and my girlfriend's children love them. I have to make a double batch for them. WE just dust them with powdered sugar, but I am going to try sugar/cinnamon next time. By the way, I love you and love to watch you! Keep going!
Yes! We used the granulated sugar! 😋
Was your grandma Sicilian? My grandma called them that as well.
My husband is from Morocco and they call these Sfinge, from the word "sponge". How interesting language is! Even more, how amazing the food is around the Mediterranean Sea ♥️
Yes! We also called them Sfingi as well!
You are wonderful ! GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY !
Happy holidays to Nonna Gina and the entire family! You all have brought us much joy since we discovered your site in March 2020 as we all started to cook more at home. Much health and happiness to you all!
Happy new year
Dear Nonna Gina, My mother and my sisters LOVE watching your RUclips cooking! Today we made your Zeppole recipe. They are delicious!! Your love of cooking for your family is such a joy to watch. Sydney Australia
I love watching you cook. It's so relaxing. I want an Italian grandma too!
💞you have one, ✨ Gina's everybody Grandma, ✨NONNA
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I love when you sing! You remind me of my gramma! 💕💕💕💕
Over here, in Northern Ireland, we are currently being hit by Storm Barra. Most people are indoors, sheltering from the high winds and driving rain. Most SENSIBLE people are indoors, watching Nonna Gina making Zeppole! Don't they look DELICIOUS??!! Thank you for your recipe and your singing! ❤❤❤❤😋😋😋😋👍👍👍👍🎊🎊🎊
Thank you for watching. God Bless and be safe!
Beautiful! Thank you Miss Gina! God bless you!
I am always thrilled to see a new video. Thank you dear Gina. You make the world a better and brighter place!
I absolutely LOVE your singing. We have had a tough bunch of family illness so I have missed your singing. Your my FAVORITE!!!!
I will keep you in my prayers. God Bless!
I love Gina and her cooking ! I am a big fan and I've watched and made many of her recipes. Some of my favorites are sausage and peppers, Tiramisu I have made for my daughter and grandchildren for Thanks Giving , and they all Love it! Thank You and your Family for sharing your wonderful warm family spirited time with all of us!!! Blessings!
Awww its so wonderful to see ya gina!!! I wish you were my grandma:) you make me happy!!
Che meraviglia signora Gina, complimenti!!!
It is always a joy to see you. I have your cookbook now, but it is much more fun to watch you make the dish, sing & then taste it.
God Bless Gina! You are a treasure! Love watching you cook and bake with love, your songs are amazing and always bring a smile to my face.
I just love you, Grandma Gina oh you are such a ray of sunshine in my eyes …… getting your marvellous recipes …. that is the joy of my day… thank you for just being you …. Our little angel. We all love you so much….. and we are so thankful to God for you, son in laws better health …🙏🏻❤️🥰🌺
So happy to see you again mama Gina😍 We are all your grandchildren all over the country. Blessings to you and your family, Happy Holidays and may God bless you always.
My Italian grandma made these every Christmas time. She made them by the truck load! Kept them in the cellar and reheated them as needed and then rolled them in sugar. All my Italian family is gone but watching this lady makes me feel right at home . Even the singing!❤❤
I remember them too at feast of San Gennero in Manhattan NY- thank you Nonna Gina!! Buon Natale!!
I love too watch your videos. Thank you grandma gina
We made this with your pizza dough recipe. We mixed the cinnamon with brown sugar. We added the sugar mix to a brown bag and when we removed the fried dough we just dropped it in the bag and shook it. Such a wonderful snack.
Gina reminds me of my Italian grandmother. She is gone now, so it's delightful to watch Grandma Gina. Thank you so much. ❣️
Wow thank you!! I love everything you make!! You bring back so many memories that we should never forget!! So yummy will make!!
I love Grandma Gina! Brings back happy memories of growing up in my Italian family and cooking together with family.
My dad's family used her sponge cake recipe. There also italian.
Looks delish Gina !!
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🌲☃️
OH HOW I'VE MISSED YOU GRANDMA GINA!!!!!!!!!!! When I saw a notification from "Italian Grandma" I was like GRANDMA GINA........WOOOOHOOO!!!!!!💜🥰💜🥰💜 I bet you've led a VERY COLORFUL life and the stories........ooooooh man I'd LOVE to hear some of your stories FOR REAL!!!!!! I can't WAIT till I can cook these WONDERFUL LITTLE MORSELS!!!!!💜😍💜😍💜 THANK YOU GRANDMA GINA for sharing!!!!!!!🤗🥰🤗🥰🤗
Wow these look sooo delicious! Thank you for welcoming us into your home Grandma Gina! Nice to see you happy and singing like your grandma! Have a wonderful holiday season! 💞
Thank you for helping to preserve our heritage through your beautiful recipes!
Grandma Gina!! I'm so happy to see you! Thank you for another wonderful recipe! Merry Christmas to you and your family and God bless you!
I love Grandma Gina! I could listen to her talk all day. God bless you Gina!
You remind me so much of my grandmother on my father's side. She was born in Bari Italy and she was an amazing cook, everything was fresh from the garden and she made her own pasta every week. This recipe brings me back to when I a little kid we would eat these on Christmas Eve after all the fish dishes. May God bless you and your family, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year 🙏⛄🎄
Family.......nothing better....I love you Gina. You represent the things I love most about my life...
Ciao nonnina Gina! Thank you for showing us how to make zeppole.
I still remember my Santola Carla. She's the one who used to make them, just before Christmas.
Guests "arrived" quite unexpectedly around the Christmas holidays in those days. (I also still remember their phone number. It was a "party line".) You had to be careful what you said on the telephone... Not everyone could afford a "private line". Especially some of us recent "emigranti".
I recall mountains of snow being cleared by the City plows, into the middle of the road, which were so high you could not see over them to the other side of the road. We kids would slide down, in our slippery snow suits. (Who needed sleds, eh?)
It's a miracle anyone survived our "wild, unsafe" childhoods. Not a seat belt in sight. Little kids trudged several blocks to the "corner store" to buy our dads their smokes... I swear. The woman who owned the convenience store never even blinked. I'd "order" 6 bananas and a pack of Export A.
She sometimes gave me the penny or two change back in 3 for a penny candy, which is the reason for that story line. :-)
Oh, the discomfort of being bundled into a "snow suit" though. We could barely move, but since it was a solid 5 minute tromp, on hard packed crunchy snow that hurt if you slipped and fell, it was both padding and arctic weather protection.
50 degree below zero farenheit temperatures some years. (No idea what the "wind chill" factor was. Didn't matter. It was a "dry cold". Only felt like 30 below... Tiny icicles would form on our eyelashes. (The only thing poking through 2 wool scarves.)
So, 3 and then later 4 kids wrapped like mummies, or we'd freeze within minutes, led by mamma in her spike heels and pappa in his shiny polished pointy shoes. (How? Lol... "Hard packed snow." Gingerly.)
Fyi: Santa used to arrive on Christmas Eve, driving a snow mobile. True story.
All the Italian families in our small northern Canadian town always had several young children in tow, including our family. What joy! What excitement!! CHRISTMAS IS COMING!!!
We'd all be offered a cup of hot chocolate milk to warm us up, once we unwrapped. To de-ice.
The adults immediately broke out the homemade red zinfandel grape wine and/or a shot of grappa. (Or 2 or 3.)
Naturally, what followed was a robust round of "stornelli".
All the men seemed to have great voices, to my ear, and their harmonies were quite spectacular if memory serves. (No instruments. "A Capella".)
While the women cranked out the zeppole in the kitchen, adding their soprano and high tenor voices to all the pre and post war Italian songs. Which I still remember, just like you do Gina.
Parola per parola...
Epic!
I was very very young but our olfactory sense is ancient. I still remember the aroma of those zeppole as well as mamma's pizzelle made with anise seeds and the requisite "liquore".
40 years or so later, my little boy and I would buy a small bucket of "doughnut holes" rolled in cinammon sugar at the PNE in Vancouver. (Reptillian brain is strong in this old Italian eh? Oh my, yes!)
Anyway... trips down memory lane are practically unavoidable whenever I watch your cooking videos and you begin singing.
Buon Natale and a better New Year cara nonnina Gina e Famiglia.
Dio ti benedica.
Sei un tesoro.
So wonderfully described.. 😊 thank you for that. Merry Christmas..
Beautiful story.. thank you for sharing..
We must never forget our Italian up bringing and our families who have gone on before us. We try to keep these Italian traditions alive, but it’s never quite the same, is it? Gina helps us to invoke these wonderful traditions and memories of our Italian parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles..
Gina is absolutely precious, she reminds me of my late mother Giuseppina 🙏🏻❤️
She is truly a treasure …Tesoro!!
Buon Natale Paisan 🎄🇮🇹🙌🏻
You are the MOST precious person on this earth! My father always made me these wonderful treats. God bless you everyday. May you have a wonderful Christmas. xo
Hello Grandma ! Here from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 ! I tried your egg plant Parmesan and it was delicious ! Now for Christmas 🎄 I will make your Zeppolis ! I love 💕 your channel and I enjoy watching you cook ! Have a great Christmas and New Years this 2022 with your family ! Much love 💗 and respect 🤗 for you ! Happy Holidays ! December 7th Tuesday 2021
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Grandma Gina always a pleasure to see you and learn new recipes 😊
Hi Nonna!
I tried making these awhile back, but they didn't turn out the way they should, BUT now, watching you make them, I learned what I did wrong, ( I put too much flour! ), so thank you Nonna Gina!
I am going to follow your instructions, so I know they will turnout perfect this time! 💕 😊
P. S. -when you sing, it gets right to my heart!
I love her singing too💕
I see the instructions say 1 cup of milk but in the video she used two cups. Made it myself and it was a bit off so i cane back to check again, totally worth the remake!
I love watching you cook! It makes me so happy and brings back memories of my Sicilian grandma ! She didn’t sing but she loved to dance with my grandpa! God bless you Nonna Gina!Padre Pio is my favorite saint,too! ❤️🙏
Your videos always brighten my day and i love trying these recipes.
Hello, Grandma Gina! Thank you for all of your wonderful videos. Auguro a te e ai tuoi cari Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo!
My family recipe is very similar, although we sometimes make variations by using a little orange juice, anisette, etc. Also, instead of using spoons, we use a piping bag with a big plain tip. It’s a lot easier. Another trick is that you can put raspberry jam or custard in the zeppole. They’re good no matter what you decide to do.
I like how hers had tails and you could pick them up by the tail.
yes my Mom and Grandma used to put fillings too my favorite dulce de leche
Thank you for bringing us such happiness and love. Merry Christmas and God bless you and your family.
These are such a treat! Thanks for sharing your recipe. Merry Christmas Grandma! May God bless you and your family!♥️
I had a grandma like her. Awesome!
So good to see You, Gina!
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Love Your singing!🎶 Merry Christmas to You and Your Family!!
Those "doughnut holes"😊 look so good, Yum! Fun to watch~makes me want 1, 2, or 3...🤔😂💓 Have a lovely day, Gina!!!💓
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Thank you for sharing your time and your recipes. Everything you make always looks delicious. I always end up with a smile on my face, especially when you sing! I purchased 2 of your cookbooks, one to keep and one to share with a brother who loves to cook. I can't wait to use them. Merry Christmas to you and your family!
I absolutely love you Gina. Your family is so blessed to have you and making these videos to last forever. Keep making these videos we all love them and you.
Who loves watching Gina and feels like she’s our Nonna too? I would love to see a show with Gina talking about her learning to cook, how she decided to do this channel, what’s her process, and who helps her film and edit? I guess what I’m saying is I want more Gina 💚❤️
I LOVE it when Grandma Gina sings. During the early part of COVID I was so glad to hear her sing. It brought me to happy that Grandma Gina was continuing to sing. Such a wonderful Grandma 👵 ❤. I love the early part, "Today, I gotta make" and then dear Grandma Gina makes it. With all her heart and soul. Singing is healing...please give Grandma Gina a BIG HUG for me. Thank you.
Merry Christmas to you and your family, love watching you and hearing you sing. ❤
Love you, Gina-Grandma!!! Wish you love and piece all time! You are great!
Lovely Christmas treats 🎄🎄 Great video as always! Thank you again!!
Grandma, you are a beautiful giving woman. I will make the Zeppoles for a Christmas treat for my family. God bless you and your family.
Hi Gina, I remember my Grandmother making this, now I have the recipe I’m going to make it tomorrow. I just love your videos it warms my heart to hear the stories and you singing❤️❤️ The videos are such good quality, I also have your book on my coffee table I have made almost all of your recipes in the book. I want to wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas🎄🎄God Bless
Thank you for supporting our channel. Merry Christmas to you and your family, God Bless!
I also have grandma Gina’s cookbook on my coffee table! Love it!
YOU WARM MY HEART♥️ every time I watch YOU! I LOVA LOVE YOU❣️🇮🇹🤗
Love those Gina, I'll make some just like yours at Christmas for visitors. Thank you for the songs and I'm sure your grandmother was singing along with you in spirit. Hope you and your family have a fantastic festive season and see you in the New Year for another video. x
I bet her beautiful songs make that food taste even better. Love you, nonna. Don't ever stop.
Oh yay, I've been wanting to make these and now I will. Thank you Gina! Merry Christmas to you and your family...and all of your fans on here, they are all family too!
I just love Nonna Gina ,she warms my heart..❤
I love these with anchovies twisted in the dough for an Italian Christmas Eve Fish Feast.
But my husband prefers the sugar, so we make both.
Merry Christmas Italian Grandma and to all your family..
We make them with anchovy too!!! They are the BEST! Glad to know someone else does too😄
The anchiove ones sound so good
They are so fantastic right out of the fryer!
We make both as well. So delicious, can't stop eating them lol. My mother in law is from Naples , Italy 🇮🇹 . Good memories
I just love watching your videos and hearing you sing. So much happiness and love in your heart. My 5 year old has been watching with me since he was 3 and calls you his youtube grandma :)
Thank you for watching. Big hug to your little one :)
Hello Ms Gina
I’m so happy to see you!
I love these donuts with cinnamon sugar & your look so fluffy and delicious 😋
Thanks for sharing your recipe & singing too 💕
Wishing you & yours a Merry Christmas 🎄 .
God bless you all
Brenda & Charlie
Take care
Thanks Gina and Family! Love my cookbook! Merry Christmas!